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The National Assembly Member for Foni Bintang, Bakary K. Badjie, has urged the government to stop allocating state reserve land to senior public officials and instead give priority to low-income citizens who struggle to acquire plots.
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson says only one in six public infrastructure tenders were concluded in the past 12 months, describing the rate as "simply not good enough" and warning that procurement failures risk paralysing the state.
Six members of one family died in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State when a head tank collapsed on their building during torrential rainfall that triggered landslides and cut off two communities from the rest of the state.
Lands Principal Secretary Nixon Korir says the government will accelerate land titling at the Coast and continue buying land for settlement, with more than 200,000 residents expected to receive ownership documents by December.
More than 190 families removed from their homes in KwaDukathole, Ekurhuleni, during apartheid are still waiting for restitution payouts 12 years after the process began, despite a R115.7 million compensation offer.
A Parliamentary Budget Office report says 176 affordable housing projects have stalled on delayed contractor payments, leaving a Ksh118.3 billion funding gap in the current financial year.
CCM's deputy secretary-general for Zanzibar says the ruling party will push for new laws on land compensation and revenue sharing after residents of Bumbwini in North Unguja complained that payouts for land taken for development are inadequate.
The Gombe State Government has handed out shops, sheds and container spaces at the Mechanics Village weeks after a High Court declared a private company the lawful owner of a 1.30-hectare parcel on the site and ordered structures removed.
The City of Johannesburg granted more than R2.9 billion in property rebates to at least 915,404 qualifying properties in the 2025/26 financial year, up from R2.7 billion a year earlier, with residential owners taking the largest share.